With just under a month to go to Eurovision 2023, the EBU, BBC, and Suspline have released the first interval acts for the semi-finals. With tickets sold and hosts announced it was only natural that our next lot of information would be about the show themselves. So with that, this morning we now know the semi-final interval acts for both …
Viewers confused as to why they watching ads from Masterchef Georgia sponsors, a brief travelogue on Corsican monasteries, and the 1995 Keanu Reeves movie A Walk in the Clouds instead of the second episode of Georgia’s Junior Eurovision artist selection show Ranina have an answer: the show is being postponed until next week due to technical difficulties. Per the show’s official Facebook page, “Due …
As their entry was one of the last to be released, Azerbaijan’s TuralTuranX also kept fans waiting to debut a live version of their Eurovision 2023 entry “Tell Me More,” taking the opportunity to perform a live version in front of Eurovision fans at the Israel Calling pre-party held this week. Apart from the wish to see how their entry …
Georgia’s Junior Eurovision 2023 campaign got off to its start today with the first episode of Ranina, the children’s talent show that has been used to pick the country’s artist for the contest for six seasons. Five of the ten hopefuls performed this evening in a duet with a past Ranina participant, and given Iru Kchechanov’s ascendance from Junior Eurovision to Eurovision …
The release of Iru’s “Echo,” Georgia’s entry for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, completes the lineup for the season after three months of national and internal selections. “Echo,” written by Iru alongside Giga Kukhianidze and Beni Kadagidze, also represents a change of strategy for the Caucasus nation as it seeks to improve its fortunes at Eurovision. Most significantly is …
After a long waiting period for the announcement of Brunette’s entry into Eurovision, we finally get to hear “Future Lover”. We are now one announcement away from knowing every participating song at Eurovision. Who is Brunette? Elen Yeremyan, known professionally as Brunette, is a 21-year-old Armenian singer-songwriter. She has been singing since age four and writing music since she was …
Georgia will officially be the last of Eurovision 2023’s 37 contestants to release their song, with IRU’s “Echo” to be released that day. Iru Khechanov, now being officially presented mononymously as IRU, revealed the song title in a post on Instagram today, as well as hinting at the vibrant white and red Georgian colors that will be her look for …
Azerbaijan’s TuralTuranX have released their Eurovision 2023 entry “Tell Me More.” The twin brothers, Tural Bagmanov and Turan Bagmanov from the northwestern town of Zaqatala, have released a rock entry that is “heavily influenced by music of the late ’60s and early ’70s.” “Tell Me More” was co-written by the twin brothers, and is Azerbaijan’s first 100% locally written and …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. As the saying goes, they saved the best for last. That is certainly true for Eurovision national selections, as Portugal’s beloved Festival da Canção is the very last of the …
Have you ever thought about literature in the same terms as the Eurovision Song Contest? For instance, how Martin Amis of the United Kingdom may fare against Nikos Kazantzakis of Greece in a literature battle, or if Annie Ernaux of France would earn douze points against Ireland’s John Banville? Then Hay Festival 2023 has just the contest for you – …
